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DramaYear1980Duration1h 35mIMDb7.3

Babylon

Drama

Centres around Brindsley Forde's character Blue. He fronts a reggae sound system based in South West London (Brixton). It captures the trials and tribulations of young black youths in troubled London in the early eighties.

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Cast

Franco Rosso

Director

David N. Haynes

Errol

Trevor Laird

Beefy

Victor Romero Evans

Lover

Brian Bovell

Scientist

AP

Archie Pool

Dreadhead

Brinsley Forde

Blue

Karl Howman

Ronnie

BM

Beverley Michaels

Elaine

AD

Ann Duncan

Beefy's Girl

BD

Beverley Dublin

Sandra

KS

King Sounds

Compere

Cynthia Powell

Mum

TW

T-Bone Wilson

Wesley

Mark Monero

Carlton

VH

Vilma Hollingbery

Lady in Street

Mel Smith

Alan

Stefan Kalipha

Fat Larry

MF

Malcolm Frederick

Wolf

Franco Rosso

Writer

Martin Stellman

Writer

Comments

10 Comments

user3144235968484May 29, 2023

Connie FergusonMay 29, 2023

source: Babylon

Ayuti Ye Dire KonjoNov 18, 2022

user8079647287620Nov 16, 2022

saw this film on a shady, grainy VHS back in 88ish still didn't stop me watchin it time after time. Featured Brinsley Forde as well as the guy off the jif adverts with a great scene showing the lengths they went to to keep the sound running after vandalism (burgling the local school for tweeters) Has few films worthy of comparisons but "rockers" "burning an illusion" and "the harder they come" spring to mind. Urban ,political, realistic with a heavyweight soundtrack which even got sampled by early 90s rave tune. Still searchin for this film as well as "burnin an illusion" any help would be appreciated, might even throw in free copy of "rockers " DVD Classic film cant believe this could be so hard to find.

Dabboo RatnaniNov 16, 2022

this film is wicked. the music is bad, in the michael jackson sense of the word, the plot is hilarious and the whole thing is filmed around brixton which is lovely if you live there. and its got the bloke from brush strokes in it.

Carmen LicaNov 16, 2022

Even now after 26 years of the film being released, I can still remember many of the scenes. Me and my brother love to run of the one liners like "Sprat and be d' banker" and "....an I doh wa fi subsidise you..". This film is an absolute classic and I would give my right hand to find this movie on DVD. This is my most memorable film from the 80's and every time I see the white dude doing the Flash adverts, I remember when Beffy did buck him down after he was chatting about the "pure wickedness man...". There wasn't too many films that depicted the racial tensions that existed between blacks and whites living in London during the 80's. I was only ten years old when this was released, but this film is etched firmly in my memory. Big respect to the actors and producers of this film.

SOFIA ANDRESNov 16, 2022

Good movie funny in parts and gritty in other parts set in the early 1980s and you can tell by the styles of clothes from the time and vehicles and parts of London looked runned down in parts but what do you expect the Tories where in charge at the time and probably only looked after parts they saw fit to sad really.

user9416103087202Nov 16, 2022

Words cannot describe the film. It was accurate in many ways, it was political, the soundtrack was awesome and one of the best films I have ever seen. Saw the file for the first time many years ago when it was screened on Channel Four. Videoed it and saw it many a time after that but unfortunately lost the video. The film was the talking point at college and everybody had the soundtrack, nicknamed themselves after the characters and repeated some of the wicked lines. NEED TO SEE IT AGAIN (and not just to relive my youth). Anybody out there know how to get of a DVD copy or even a video copy? Have got friends searching for me as well but to date no joy.

Emir🇹🇷Nov 16, 2022

This is a wonderful film, featuring a almost all black cast apart from a couple of white characters, one being (Mel Smith in a cameo role) as a boss and the other(karl Howman) a friend of the young black men. It deals with the race relations in a brutal way, and is quite hard to watch at times but this is what proper film making is all about imo. It has its fair share of funny moments as well, like the main character having to take his truant little bro to school but he keeps running off trying to avoid going. A film about race,family,friends and love in a well acted and competently directed film without being flashy which it does not need to be. The scenes with the token white friend and and his black pals are the strongest scenes in the movie. Also a final point which it is great to see what certain parts of London looked back then, grim and uninviting.

nadianakaiNov 16, 2022

Saw USA release in the theatre in Austin and it beat my hopes. Great soundtrack and a story that is still pertinent to today. Sad it took so long. Need this in more mediums.

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